Re: [RFC] staging: ste_rmi4: merge into the main kernel tree

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Friday, November 16, 2012 09:02:30 AM Alexandra Chin wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> > > > Please have Greg commit the patch that Henrik reviewed to staging and
> > > > then work with Christopher Heiny group on getting the full featured
> > > > driver into mainline.
> 
> Thanks for your reminding, final patch has been re-sent to staging
> maintainer.
> 
> > In this case you need to enumerate the benefits of this driver over
> > unified driver and show why the unified driver can't be fixed.
> > 
> > Currently the driver is in mainline (even though the directory is
> > staging) and nobody will remove it until another driver is fully
> > functional and ready for prime time. But once this happens I do not see
> > the benefits of maintaining 2 drivers for the same hardware.
> 
> I see. Given that the driver will remain in mainline before generic driver
> is ready, currently I will continue to maintain the driver in staging.

Sounds like a plan.

Thanks!

-- 
Dmitry
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